Sophie Swetchine Quotes

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

Prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trail as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the Great master of the Universe. He rules over all, but He also will listen to your prayers as His daughter and hear you as you speak with Him. He will answer your prayers. He will not leave you alone.

Prayer is fundamentally a transformation of will, a lifting of the heart and will to God.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.